OCEARCH is hoping to find proof this time around and is putting together an expedition to study the area, according to Twitter posts. The goals including finding and tagging females in the area, so they will reveal where they give birth, Fischer told Florida Today in a July 20 article.

Hilton was tagged with a satellite transmitter in March of 2017 off Hilton Head, and is 12-feet, 7 inches long, OCEARCH says. Tracking shows Hilton is prone to staying in the warmer waters off the Carolinas and Georgia.

OCEARCH announced over the weekend that scientists “just made a huge breakthrough” by discovering the New York Bight is one of the shark nursery sites that have long eluded researchers, according to a July 20 Facebook post. (The bight is an area of shallow water stretching from New Jersey’s Cape May Inlet to the eastern tip of Long Island.)

Sand tiger sharks in North Carolina and along the broader east coast of the USA help track shark movement and behavior over time.

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